First Bell Telephone motion picture
Attached caption: "10. First Bell Telephone, June 1875." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gra... More
Berliner, not Edison, is inventor of microphone, book declares
Copy 1. Reprinted with permission from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com. Copyright 2002, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, The Washington Post and wash... More
Emile Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, facing right, looking d...
Originally housed in Illustrations folder. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Louise Berliner, full-length portrait, standing on deck of ship
Verso: "Louise - then - Frank about 1927" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berlin... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Motorized gramophone motion picture
Mounted on card. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc reco... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Document, 1879 Jan. 8, stating Emile Berliner's claims to telephony in...
May have been inside envelope addressed to Houghton Mifflin & Co., "re Watson's article, 1916." Drawing of invention attached. Document asserts Emile Berliner's claims to have invented improvements to telephony... More
View of Berliner Gramophone factory, workbench, electrical equipment a...
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 11. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-5: machine shop with electrical post and light." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and bu... More
View of Berliner factory, batteries and electrical wall panel
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 7. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-3: factory shop electrical box?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is ... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Early Berliner recording machine built into large wooden stand
Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More
Portrait of Emile Berliner in later years
Copy 1. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Emile Berliner, seated and facing right in group portrait with two chi...
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Originally mounted cardboard and paper frame.
Portrait photo of Cora Berliner? seated in automobile
Mounted on board. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegra... More
E. Berliner's gramophone motion picture
Advertisement of Berliner's gramophone contains girl sitting while playing gramophone. Verso contains handwritten list of band music and recitations, July 29, 1895.
Journal, Cora A. Berliner - Public domain document scan of drawing
Handwritten; only 38 p. contain writing; 8 loose p. inserted into journal. Contains inserted pencil drawing of Dr. Thaene by Emile Berliner. Cora A. Berliner's journal of her family's trip on board a steamer to... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Auditorium in the James F. Oyster School in Washington
Copy 1. Attached caption: "Auditorium in the James F. Oyster School which produced such great reverberation that women often left meetings because the confusion of sounds was so unbearable. Part of the walls we... More
Berliner family motion picture - Public domain historic place photogra...
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on card. Smaller print of item 120010303.
Emile and Joseph Berliner, shaking hands
Mounted on cardboard. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Microphonic contacts by transmitted light
Originally housed in envelop labeled: "Roy M. Allen 1926." Verso: "Roy M. Allen, Bloomfield, N.J., Photomicrograph, subject: Microphonic Contacts by transmitted light. No. C-80, magnification 540x." Emile Berl... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Dr. Ernest C. Schroeder, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightl...
Verso: "Dr. E.C. Schroeder." Attached caption: "Dr. Ernest C. Schroeder, biologist, Director U.S. Animal Experiment Station, Bethesda Md. Whose friendship and co-operation Berliner enjoyed for many years." Emi... More
Emile Berliner, half-length portrait, standing in doorway, facing left
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877
Title taken from attached caption: "The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc re... More
Gramophone : No. 534,543, patented 1895 Feb. 19 photocopy
1 page photocopy of a diagram from patent No. 534,543. Witnesses listed as: Percy C ? Bowen and F. J. ? Chapman, Joseph Lyons, Attorney. 1 page photocopy of diagram on page 3 of a four page patent. "4 Sheets--Sheet 3."
Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner 1888 August 25
With original envelope. Letter from J. W. Hyatt to E. Berliner regarding the pressing of discs from Berliner's zinc master.
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
The gramophone: etching the human voice
Copy 1. Title on cover: "Paper read before the Franklin Institute, May 16, 1888, on the gramophone by its inventor, Emile Berliner." Reprint of published speech by Berliner delivered to the Franklin Institute o... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain scan - children, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Samuel? Halton?, half-length portrait, facing left
Verso: "Samuel? Halton?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the ... More
Emile Berliner in mirrors - Public domain portrait print
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 19. Title taken from list description: "Emile Berliner in Mirrors"
Group portrait of Emile Berliner and others
Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.
Microphonic contacts motion picture
Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Alexander Graham Bell, half-length portrait
Written on front: "Bell." Verso: "Alexander Graham Bell." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gr... More
Group portrait of children, including Louise Berliner
Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc... More
Emile Berliner reaches 75 today
Copy 3. Copyright Washington Post; reprinted by permission of the D.C. Public Library, [email protected].
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Apparatus for producing sound-records: specification forming part of L...
Copy 1. "Emile Berliner, of Washington, District of Columbia, Assignor to United States Gramophone Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, a corporation of West Virginia." Diagrams and specification of Em... More
Patent application Patent 462,062 filed 1908 Oct. 3, allowed 1909 May ...
Title derived from notes written in pencil at top of application. Corrections in ink, p. 2 , 3. Accompanied by typewritten note addressed to Emile Berliner, dated June 2, 1909, from Eugene W. Johnson, "Solicito... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
James J. Storrow, half-length portrait, facing left
Attached caption: "James J. Storrow, eminent patent counsel for the Bell Telephone interests who defended the Bell and Berliner patents." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busi... More
Microphone of March 4, 1877 - An old photo of a spinning clock on a ta...
Attached caption: "Microphone of March 4, 1877, used in lawsuits in 1879. Still transmitting today the ticking of a watch and every other sound." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor ... More
Emile Berliner, full length portrait, facing left
Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5. Mounted on cardboard labeled Bachrach & Bro, Baltimore, Md, Washington, D.C.
Emile Berliner, bust portrait, facing slightly right
Mounted on cardboard. Originally housed in Joseph Sanders Collection Box 5.
Emile Berliner and veiled woman in automobile
Public domain photograph of an automobile, 1910s car, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Microphonic contacts by opaque illumination
Originally housed in envelop labeled: "Roy M. Allen 1926." Verso: "Roy M. Allen, Bloomfield, N.J., Photomicrograph, subject: Microphonic Contacts by opaque illumination. No. C-81, magnification 1125x." Emile B... More
Gramophone: specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,786, ...
Diagram and specifications. Original application filed May 4, 1887, Serial No. 237,060. Divided and this application filed September 26, 1887. Serial No. 250,721. Patent detailing Emile Berliner's "useful impro... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co
Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More
Early hand wind machine - Early photography, Public domain image
Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list. Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 2. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his ... More
Robert Berliner Frank, three-quarter length portrait, in flight suit, ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a pilot, aviator, aircraft, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known f... More
Louise Berliner, full-length portrait, as a child
Mounted on board. Written on front: "CM Gilbert" Verso: "Louise, High Art Photography, Gilbert Studios, 926 Chestnut St., Philada, cor. F & Eleventh St., Washington, D.C., Atlantic City, N.J." Emile Berliner 1... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - group portrait, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co
Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Gramophone litigation motion picture
Hardcover. Title taken from spine. Contains compiled material on Victor Talking Machine Co. and U.S. Gramophone Co. vs. American Graphophone Co.; American Graphophone Co. v. National Gramophone Co. and Frank Se... More
Louise Berliner, three-quarter length portrait, facing forward, wearin...
Public domain scan of a female portrait, woman, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best know... More
Emile and Cora Berliner - Public domain portrait print
Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list. Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 17.
109 Court Street Boston where both Bell and Berliner worked
Title taken from attached caption: "14. 109 Court Street Boston where both Bell and Berliner worked." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his de... More
Production of Sound Records : specifications forming part of Letters P...
"Joseph W. Jones of New York, N.Y. assignor to himself, and Joseph A. Vincent, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Diagram and specifications detailing Joseph Jones' improvements in the production of sound records.
Gramophone patents: U. S. Gramophone Co
Handwritten notations throughout. Correction page tipped in at beg. Patent 548, 623. Some blank pages between patents and facing diagrams. Gramophone patents bound informally together. Includes Berliner patents... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Workers posing around conveyor belt in Berliner's gramophone plant, Ha...
Originally housed in large envelope addressed to Joseph Sanders from S. Fridberg. Verso: "Gramophon Kniestr 18, Hannover." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is ... More
HMV logo motion picture - Early photography, Public domain image
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 24. List description: "HMV logo on paper." Mounted on 8.5 x 11 in. sheet of paper. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busine... More
Letter from Emile Berliner to Jacob Berliner, 1882 July 10
Letter from Emile Berliner in Boston to Jacob Berliner. Formerly in mylar sleeve labeled: "Documents #4, Emile Berliner's letters (7) to his brother Jacob in Hannover, January through Oct. 1882." Written on Ame... More
Scrap book motion picture - Public domain document scan of drawing
Scrapbook was probably compiled by Emile Berliner. Only excerpts have been digitized. Pages are empty except for 3. Article on cloud telegraphy is loose. Scrapbook is empty except for 3 pages relating to the Un... More
Patents booklet motion picture, Emile Berliner radio broadcasting coll...
"H'oenshein" ? handwritten on front cover. Pencil notations p.1, p. 5 , p. 15. Informally-bound booklet of various gramophone patents, diagrams, and specifications, including Emile Berliner's patents: 372,786; ... More
Portrait photo of Photograph album, ca. 1918-1923
Album of personal photographs. Includes Berliner, family and friends. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Muddy Jim and other rhymes : 12 illustrated health jingles for childre...
Table of contents: "Rhymes by Emile Berliner, President Tuberculosis Society of Washington, D.C., pictures by J. A. Whiteford." Also printed on title page : "Learn every rhyme and be healthy all the time." Abov... More
Ruins of Berliner factory in Washington, destroyed by fire?
Mounted on card frame. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the te... More
Cora Berliner? with group of women sitting on large rock
Picryl description: Public domain photograph group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his dev... More
View of Berliner Gramophone factory, workbench, electrical equipment a...
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 8. List description: "Neg. no. 23456-5: factory shop electrical box and worktable?" Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and busin... More
Emile Berliner and family - Public domain image related to music prfor...
Originally grouped in Brown Berliner photo box, item 15. Title taken from Brown Berliner photo box list.
Berliner's Gram-o-phone shop, 2315-2316 St. Catherine Street, Montreal...
Verso: "Montreal, Ste. Catherine St." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner w... More
Bedroom of unidentified house, with Georgetown banner
Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gramophone. Berliner worked in the telegraph industry experim... More
109 Court Street Boston - A drawing of a building with a sign on it
Written on front: "Boston Mass 1879." Mounted in frame. Larger copy of item 120050110 Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the... More
Professor Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz, half-length portrait
Printed on front: "Professor Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz - Died at Berlin, Germany, September 8, 1894." Attached caption: "5b von Helmholtz." Printed in newspaper. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a G... More
Photocopy of Zon-o-Phone advertisement
Photocopy of advertisement for Zon-o-phone talking machine from National Gram-o-phone Corporation.
Cora Berliner, half-length portrait, facing left
Singed on front: "Bachrach 1917." Seal in front: "Bachrach, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington" Mounted in folder. Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He ... More
Emile Berliner with daughter Louise and grandson Robert Berliner Frank
Written on front: "Glenora 1921". Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A tribute to Emile Berliner on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birth...
Copy 5. The board of directors of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the District of Columbia offer Berliner a tribute on his birthday.